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Robbert Dijkgraaf is Head of the US Institute for Advanced Study. Once home to Albert Einstein. Dijkgraaf lives on the campus of this sanctuary of science. He introduces us to scientists who have dedicated their lives to the future. Thinkers, dreamers, explorers, researchers. Their knowledge is spreading across a global network. What will happen when…

The world we live in feels normal, ordinary. It feels like this is just how humans exist and always existed. But, it’s not. Never before have we humans lived in a world as sophisticated and engineered to our needs as today. Giving us the luxury to forget about ourselves and not worry about survival. Food,…

– Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, fear of automation has been on the rise. In the early-1800s, textile workers in England got spooked by the rise of weeding machines and sparked a rebellion so intense that the military had to be called in to put it down. When the automobile was invented, people…

(soft whimsical music) (quiet pattering) – [Narrator] In Hollywood, everything is magic and make-believe… – [Woman] Gloves with paper clips are dog paws. – [Narrator] Even what you hear. – We are storytellers with sound. Over here we have a feather duster we use for bird– (feathers fluttering) bird wings. We bring sound into the…

[ Music ]>>To me, the number one attribute of someone in this field is curiosity. [ Music ]>>We’re working with atoms and stuff like that, so it’s very interesting technology. And I think that’s where the future’s headed.>>It’s so hard to wrap ourselves around the idea of how small that is.>>If you have the desire…

( intro music ) ( applause ) Robert: I’m going to start off with a bold and probably unsubstantiated claim which is that robotics is the next internet. What I mean by that is it’s the next big thing to impact our lives whether it’s biomedical applications, whether it’s automating our daily lives. Before I…

Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology For most of our history, human technology consisted of our brains, fire, and sharp sticks. While fire and sharp sticks became power plants and nuclear weapons, the biggest upgrade has happened to our brains. Since the 1960’s, the power of our brain machines has kept growing exponentially,…

welcome to the 5th kind this video is brought to you in partnership with Gaia comm creating thought-provoking documentaries and programs as we become ever more reliant on cellular phones and devices to aid in our everyday tasks rapid development into new technologies is underway at an alarming rate modern devices are now specifically designed…

– We look at every subject that we want to film and then we say, “Well, what is the best way “to get into their world?” It’s an amazing moment when you realize that you are actually seeing some stuff for the first time. My name’s John Downer, and these are my incredible team of…